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Langa is a densely packed community of matchbox houses and shacks of tin, wood and plastic sheeting crammed into every available space. For visitors it is a glimpse of a world of poverty, leavened by the locals' cheerful resolve to make the best of things. Entrepreneurs thrive in old shipping containers, converted to house everything from hair salons and driving schools to funeral parlors. In a church-run day-care centre, infants address Caucasian visitors with cries of "Abelungu!" - the Xhosa word for whites. One stop is a cookery school sponsored by city hotels, where students from Langa's poorest...
They quickly move on to a dishwashing minuet of scrubbing and squeaking, a sonnet of smashing trashcan lids together as cymbals, and endless other combinations of matchbox drums, rubber tonal tubes, bucket snare drums, tossing paint cans, and folding chairs. Every now and then, the team will breakout into a Riverdance-like set of Irish stepping; however, this tap dancing relies on steel-toed construction boots...
Walmart loves to shock and awe. City-size stores, absurdly low prices ($8 jeans!) and everything from milk to Matchbox toys on its shelves. And with the recession forcing legions of stores into bankruptcy, the world's largest retailer now apparently wants to take out the remaining survivors...
Herpa makes the German equivalent of Matchbox cars, scale models of real cars that can fit snugly in the hands of small children. It bought the rights to the Trabi name years ago and makes a line of Trabis for tiny tots. Now, Herpa wants to market a new Trabi as a retro designer item for a green, fashion-conscious clientele. It plans to unveil a prototype next month at the International Motor Show in Frankfurt. (See the best cars from the 2009 Detroit Auto Show...
...world that it was Pakistan and LeT that created him. "The evidence gathered so far unmistakably points to the territory of Pakistan as a source of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai," the dossier concludes. The ordinary things that Qasab and the others left behind on the boat - a matchbox, detergent powder, Touchme shaving cream and a bottle of Mountain Dew - are all included as exhibits, their MADE IN PAKISTAN labels presented as damning evidence...